For what it's worth, we decided on a chromium based browser on SL7, but not Chrome or Chromium itself. We are using Vivaldi, which does have working rpms on SL7, except for one thing - it doesn't support "proprietary media codecs". So far this isn't much of an issue. 

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James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University



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Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2021 12:30 PM
To: Stephen Isard; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: google-chrome

On 10/23/21 11:11 AM, Götz Waschk wrote:
> Am 22.10.21 um 16:40 schrieb Stephen Isard:
>> For the past couple of days, I've been getting
>>
>> ------------------
>> /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron:
>>
>> Failed to check for updates with the following error message:
>> Failed to build transaction: google-chrome-stable-95.0.4638.54-1.x86_64
>> requires libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.18)(64bit)
>> ------------------
>>
>> Disabling the google-chrome repo makes the error message go away, of
>> course,
>> and lets check-update proceed.  But is this the end of the road for
>> chrome
>> updates on SL7, or is there some reasonably straightforward work-around?
>>
>> Stephen Isard
>>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> I have seen this. The solution was rpm -e google-chrome-stable . You
> could try to run Google Chrome in an EL8 singularity container, e.g.
> based on CentOS8, AlmaLinux8 or Rocky Linux 8.

I'm going to second Götz. Officially Chrome isn't supported on RH. They
say Fedora 24+...

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__support.google.com_chrome_answer_95346-3Fhl-3Den&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=dgMSM-KkpmXdR-TaFWz2pQPbuaFF5Ip3DaeYI-W9P-WL7T8PxtNz6HqLNf6hhX9Y&s=jH9qcs4D1gLr98CA7sw5fP8cWMTF0UDYVnGBq_BBxkI&e=

We /MUCH/ prefer Firefox but we ran into an issue where we needed it on
a SL7 system for a specific workload but it seemed like it broke every
other update. It was a pain trying to manage Chrome. We finally just
started using containers for Chrome until the end of the project and
then we went back to Firefox for everything.

I too recommend Singularity for containerization, but there are other
containers out there if you look.

~Stack~